Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg; born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 January 1688
CountrySweden
thinking knowing charity
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.
life men organs
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
angel unique essence
Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.
angel two heaven
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.
heaven wells
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
faith spiritual men
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
men quality doe
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
kindness worship divine
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
god essence glory
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
desire charity philanthropy-giving
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
life love-is humanity
Love is the life of humanity.
angel talking inspire
Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
heaven age world
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
service-to-others
Love comes into being through useful service to others.